Christmas Cake

Ingredients

• 750g premium mixed fruit (sultanas, raisins, currants)
• 1 cup Changing Habits Rapadura Sugar
• 1/2 cup brandy or sherry
• 1/2 cup water
• 50g Changing Habits Cacao Melts
• 1 cup crushed pineapple (including the juice)
• 185g coconut oil (or butter, chopped)
• 3 organic free range eggs, beaten
• 1 1/4 cups buckwheat flour or Changing Habits Emmer Wheat Flour
• 1 cup almond meal
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1/4 tsp bicarbonate soda
• 1 tsp mixed spice
• 1 tsp Changing Habits Ginger Powder
• Cacao nibs for decoration
• 1 vanilla bean, scraped